Do you love Romance? Do you love Mills & Boon series fiction?

Mills & Boon publishes high quality, branded romance fiction, available in print in WHSmith and Tesco or as ebook. This includes Mills & Boon Modern, True Love, Medical and Historical. Harlequin is a division of HarperCollins Publishers New York and is published under the Mills & Boon brand in the UK. More information is available at www.millsandboon.co.uk

The Role

The Editorial Assistant will provide administrative and editorial support for the Medical and True Love/Harlequin Romance series and will report to the Senior Editor. 

This is a full time role with at least 2 days a week required (specifically Wednesdays and Thursdays) in the London office in the News Building, London Bridge.

Mills & Boon/Harlequin Medical is where you’ll find contemporary romances set in the medical world.  Readers can experience the rollercoaster of drama and emotions, ambitions and desires between medical professionals.

Mills & Boon True Love/Harlequin Romance stories are all about relatable and deeply desirable contemporary characters experiencing the intensity, anticipation and sheer rush of falling in love.  Readers are swept away by these emotional, glamorous and uplifting romantic escapes.

The ideal candidate for this vacancy will have a passion for the romance genre and be looking to build a career in publishing. 

Key Responsibilities

• Co-ordinating deadlines, collating and preparing material

• Creating/amending prelim pages

• Updating monthly schedules, data inputting

• Writing end page and writing/reviewing back cover copy

• Preparing artwork details

• Maintaining filing systems and updating databases

• Responding to correspondence and answering author queries, dealing with telephone calls

• Liaising with Marketing and Production departments

• Assessing unsolicited submissions and drafting reports/replies

• Preparing Acquisition Report/Log slush and other team admin duties

• Other general administration as required in support of the Historical team, along with the wider Acquisition team

Skills Required

• A genuine interest in a publishing career, particularly in women's popular fiction

• Strong ability to work to and juggle multi-deadlines

• Highly organised                 

• Strong multi-tasker

• Excellent grammar and spelling

• Eye for detail             

• Proactive

• Team player              

• Reliable

• Professional              

• Confident Communicator

• Creative                     

• Enthusiastic     

Benefits 

• Hybrid working model (2+ days in the office) 

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell holiday days) 

• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave 

• Private healthcare cover and life assurance 

• Summer Hours  

• Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal 

• Season ticket loans (from day 1 for entry level) and cycle to work scheme 

• Relocation Rent Support Loan  

• Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work and Pride at HC 

• Unlimited training on our Learning and Development portal, management courses (up to MA level) and mentoring programmes 

• Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers 

• Gym membership discount 

• Onsite physiotherapy (London only) 

• Charitable donation matching and  2 volunteering days 

• We're a certified Carbon Neutral company 

• Free e-books and audiobooks, newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books 

• Subsidised canteen and retail discounts 

• Onsite prayer room 

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking internships or entry level positions. For more information visit  https://www.btbs.org/

If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to recruitment@harpercollins.co.uk with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.

Please note, if you are interested in the role you would need to submit your application via Applied. We do not accept email applications.